Police seize Rs 100 million in cash in poll-bound Bellary

The police have seized a staggering Rs 100 million in cash, which was being transported in two cars to poll-bound Bellary in Karnataka.

Superintendent of Bellary district police Amrit Paul told reporters that both the cash-laden vehicles were coming from Kurnool in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh and headed towards Bellary.

While one vehicle bore a registration number plate of Karnataka the other had a registration number allotted by Andhra Pradesh. The two drivers of the vehicles and five others in the two vehicles have been arrested.

The occupants of the seized vehicles claim that the cash had been withdrawn from a bank and inquiries were underway to ascertain the purpose of transporting such a large quantity of money across the border into a poll-bound state.

Meanwhile, senior Congress leader and former President of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee B Janardhan Poojary has urged the Election Commission to institute an inquiry into the seizure of Rs 100 million in Bellary.

“There is a need to establish to whom the cash belonged to and who was the recipient”, Poojary said.

It may be mentioned here that the ensuing polls to Bellary will witness a fierce battle between BJP and Congress, who leaders run highly profitable mining activities in the Karnataka-Andhra Pradesh borders.